ALEXIS HUNTER

NEWS AND EXHIBITIONS

Alexis
Hunter and Jo Spence

Richard
Saltoun Gallery

curated by George
Vasey

Exhibition Dates August
2013 - September 2013

Richard
Saltoun is proud to announce a two person exhibition of works by Alexis
Hunter and Jo Spence. The show brings together rare and previously unseen
Phototherapy work from the Jo Spence estate alongside important feminist
work from the mid-Seventies by Alexis Hunter. The exhibition offers an
opportunity to view two artists work that have been hugely influential
to the development of feminist art in the UK.

The exhibition
represents the largest exhibition of Hunter's work in the UK since her
presentation at Norwich Gallery in 2006, and follows Spence's major retrospective
at SPACE and Studio Voltaire in 2012. Although both Hunter and Spence
came from radically different backgrounds, training in painting and photography
respectively each have brought new critical rigor to the genre of photographic
portraiture. Utilizing role-play, re-enactment and story telling to interrogate
forms of self representation within broader debates around the depiction
of the female body.

Active
at a time when woman were wholly underrepresented in the art world Hunter
and Spence used their work to act out personal traumas and shift gender
assumptions and cultural stereotypes. For both Hunter and Spence art was
a tool for active social and cultural change, often utilizing the look
of amateur snapshot photography - the camera became an instrument of democratic
action.

The exhibition
will be accompanied by new writing from Beth Bramich, Nina Wakeford, and
Louisa Lee that will explore the legacies of Alexis Hunter and Jo Spence
to a current generation of female cultural workers.

Woman : The Feminist
Avant-Garde from the 1970s. Works for the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna

exhibition runs:
June 4 - September 1, 2013

Location:Circulo
de Bellas
Calle Alcala 42 Madrid

BE A MAN!

SUMMERIA
LUNN GALLERY

Exhibition runs:
14th March to 19th April 2013

Location: 36 South
Molton Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB

FANS OF FEMINISM

Cass Gallery, Central House.

15th Feb to 23rd February 2013. .

THEME: Work will relate to
feminist ideas, issues, artists, history of feminism or feminist art.
Since feminism is about equality and how we live in the world, a wide
range of issues are relevant. The show is based on the principle of temporal
drag, creating active dialogue between the feminist mythologies
that influence us and the contemporary issues we experience. It will demonstrate
the relevant, practical and positive impact the feminist art continuum
has had, and continues to have, on the lives of women and men, and provide
a debate within contemporary feminist discourse, whilst relating to and
referencing the strong tradition of feminist art history and criticism.

http://www.britishartfair.co.uk/

LONDON ORIGINAL PRINT
FAIR

RICHARD SALTOUN

Royal
Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

2011

London Art Fair

stand 34 RICHARD SALTOUN
GALLERY

18-22 January 2011

me maskuline

King's College
London, The Strand, London, United Kingdom

Monday, October 25 at 6:30pm - October 29 at 5:00pm

Inside Out Festival ‘me maskuline’ is an exhibition of photography and
video works focused on the fakery of masculinity – a fakery that all too
often leads to violence. Instigated by exhibiting artist Alex Brew, the
show includes works spanning 30 years by Oreet Ashery, Rosie Gunn, Alexis
Hunter, Derek Jackson, Del LaGrace Volcano, Tracy Allen, Katy Norton and
Grace Lau.. The artists come together around their focus on their own
relationship to masculinity. They give masculinity meaning only to strip
it bare again. Clock the sheer cheek of the work. Banned, torn off walls
and labelled a ‘violence towards men’ it rears its head and stares back
again. Clock the risk-taking and the breaks with gender conventions of
‘Chain Reaction’ ‘scaling buildings to get to the top of the world to
perform [their] radical perversions for the camera.’ Clock the woman approaching
men in public places and asking them to remove items of clothes in a more
private space. Clock the young woman in baggy clothes asking a buff man
to wrap himself in cling-film for the series ‘Bound’. Clock the woman
passing as male to dance at a huge men-only religious festival in Israel.

As we hold the mythological male’s gaze – seemingly all powerful, superior,
a show of musculature and authority – will the work act as a catalyst
for violence or for change? This exhibition is curated by Alex Brew. The
exhibition and the opening night panel are organised and hosted by the
Centre for Culture, Media & Creative Industries, in conjunction with Queer@King’s
& with support from the ESRC.

An exhibition of photography
and video works focused on masculinity, curator Alex Brew.

Combining work spanning 30 years, the exhibition includes images last
exhibited in London in the 70s.
Alexis Hunter's 'Approach to Fear XVII: Masculinisation of Society - exorcise'
was last shown in London at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979, the same
year it was banned from Ireland. She will also show new, previously unshown
work featuring Stuckist ringleader Charles Thomson.

The exhibition opens on 26th July- 8th August 2010.

No
such Thing As Society

opens
at the
National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff 4 July - 4 October 2009

The
exhibition presents a group of works that address aspect of how we perform
and represent ourselves. The works explore aspect of identity, the feminine,
the masculine, sexuality and mythology.
Charotte Huddleston, Curator Contemporary Art, Te Papa.

20th
of December 2008 to mid-April 2009

The
National Gallery of New Zealand Te Papa has purchased two major Feminist
Art Movement photographic series by Alexis Hunter, 'The Object Series
1974' and the 'Approach to Fear III: Taboo demystify 1976' narrative sequence,
from Whitespace Gallery, Auckland.

KARMA INTERNATIONAL
showing
Alexis Hunter's photography at OPEN SPACE COLOGNE IN GERMANY April 2008

Hunter's
Domestic Warfare photographic narrative sequence, a 100 image performance-photowork
is to be shown for the first time in the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
since 'Three Perspectives of Photography'. Catalogue by Hayward Publishing,'No such Thing as Society' ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5

Talk,
'Romantic Love and Sexual Hatred',10th Nov, 3pm, by Alexis Hunter at Winterthur,
near Zurich in Switzerland during 'Aggression' Exhibition co-curated by
Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova ''The Object Series' about the
heterosexual female gaze and 'Dialogue with a Rapist' about racism and
sexism on the street ...

An
abundance of insights," by Christopher Knight of the LA Times, April
29, 2007"Thanks to the beautifully rendered Photorealist style, a lush
assertion of feminine power enhances the erotic edge of its otherwise
masculine imagery" Christopher Knight

Hunter interviewed about The Object Series on National Broadcasting
News, NBC TV. 7/3/2007 (USA)